When people read frankenstein for the first time people think of victor frankenstein as crazy or insane. People assume this because while reading you see that he's depressed or all of a sudden very happy. In my opinion victor frankenstein is suffering from bipolar disorder. Bipolar polar disorder is when someone is not in full control their emotions. They can go from having a very manic (happy) to being very depressed. It is also most commonly accompanied by abnormal life disrupting behavior.
When victor decided to change his studies in college so quickly from alchemy to chemistry and natural philosophy. Which can be called abnormal behavior because people don't just change their mind on a whim. “Walking up and down in the greatest agitation ,listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which i had so miserably given life.” (frankenstein 43) In the quote you can see that all he can think of or concentrate on is the monster. The belief that he could create life from dead body parts at all is a early sign of bipolarism.
The way people act and who they really are on the inside
may be two different things.That's what happened in MacBeth. Macbeth, Banquo and Lady MacBeth each show an Image of themselves but later they show their true colors. One of the first times we see this theme or idea happen in macbeth is when the witches say “fair is foul and foul is fair.The quote means says nothing is what it seems. Banquo tends to hold back his feelings to not offend others around him. At one point in the play Banquo and MacBeth find themselves with three witch sisters who make three predictions. MacBeth starts